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Author: David Cairns Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520228986 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 332
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A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.
Author: David Cairns Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520228986 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 332
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A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.
Author: Kristi Brown-Montesano Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520385799 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
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Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte. Each chapter takes a close look at the music, libretto text, literary sources, and historical factors that give shape to a character, re-evaluating common assumptions and proposing fresh interpretations. Brown-Montesano views each character as the subject of a story, not merely the object of a hero’s narrative or the stock figure of convention. From amiable Zerlina, to the awesome Queen of the Night, to calculating Despina, all of Mozart’s women have something unique to say. These readings also tackle provocative social, political, and cultural issues, which are used in the operas to define positive and negative images of femininity: revenge, power, seduction, resistance, autonomy, sacrifice, faithfulness, class, maternity, and sisterhood. Keenly aware of the historical gap between the origins of these works and contemporary culture, Brown-Montesano discusses how attitudes about such concepts—past and current—influence our appreciation of these fascinating representations of women.
Author: Jessica Waldoff Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195151976 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 350
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'Recognition in Mozart's Operas' is a thoughful treatise that uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart's best-loved operas. Waldoff argues that, rather than offering the simple happy endings or tragic climaxes of 'easier' operas, many of Mozart's work features scenes of recognition-moments.
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486277264 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 322
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Handy practical guide to three of Mozart's most popular operas. Excellent line-for-line English translations face the Italian texts. Also introductions, plot synopses, and lists of characters for each opera.
Author: Daniel Heartz Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520078727 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
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Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection. The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte—Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well. Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas.
Author: Joachim Kaiser Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
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Profiles all of Mozart's major operatic characters, from Figaro and Don Giovanni to Countess Almaviva and the Queen of the Night from "The Magic Flute," describing each personality's drives, loves, hates, and passions.
Author: Paul A. Robinson Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801494284 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 292
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Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.
Author: David Cairns
Author: David Cairns
Author: Kristi Brown-Montesano
Author: Edward Joseph Dent
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Author: Joachim Kaiser
Author: Paul A. Robinson